It’s the bye week and it’s time for thoughts!
1. Georgiev Fever! I discussed this at length in the most recent podcast, but here’s the short version. The New York Rangers are carrying three goalies: aging legend Henrik Lundqvist (who has an NMC he seems disinclined to waive), hotshot 24-year-old Igor Shestorkin, and hotshot 23-year-old Alexandar Georgiev. While Georgiev has shown well as an NHL backup thus far, Shestorkin is apparently considered the real diamond prospect, and so the natural inference is that the Rangers might trade Georgiev to improve elsewhere.
Either the Rangers genuinely want to make a deal, or they don’t.